Gilchrist's wild celebration highlights the importance of having academy products in a side with a fragile connection to its fans
Gilchrist's wild celebration highlights the importance of having academy products in a side with a fragile connection to its fansgoal went flying out the window. Considering half his life had been building up to this moment, you might have assumed there would be some elaborate routine planned, but the 20-year-old settled for trying, and at one point failing, to keep all his limbs functioning.
Gilchrist is a third-generation season ticket holder at Stamford Bridge who has been at the club for a decade, brought up in nearby Kingston upon Thames. When he was a child, his dad created a Championship Manager player called Alfie Gilchrist who played for Chelsea, and what was once a pipe dream is now reality.He reacted exactly how any fan inside the stadium would in his position: this was raw, wild, unadulterated passion, a memory to recall as you lay on your deathbed.
If you are Tyrique George or Kiano Dyer, who joined Chelsea at seven and 13 respectively, you have to wonder that if you are not coming off the bench at 5-0 up, when will you? If you are going to prioritise young players, which Chelsea have clearly done, why not the young players already at the club?
Chelsea still have one of the finest academies in world football, as Rio Ngumoha’s wondergoal and Frankie Runham’s brace highlighted against Wolves last week in the U17s.
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